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Dance pioneer Martha Graham, a member of the Little Rock Nine and the founder of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation are among 10 women who will be enshrined in the National Women's Hall of Fame, the hall announced Tuesday. The class of 2015 — a mix from science, sports, civil rights and social causes — will be inducted in October in the hall located in the upstate New York village of Seneca Falls, where the first known women's rights convention was held in 1848. The 46-year-old hall honors a new group every two years, chosen by a national panel of experts. "Every time you think, how can it be as good as last time or the time before that or the time...

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Dance pioneer Martha Graham, a member of the Little Rock Nine and the founder of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation are among 10 women who will be enshrined in the National Women's Hall of Fame, the hall announced Tuesday. The class of 2015 — a...

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